Bit interleaving for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in the transmission of digital signals
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsRajiv Vijayan, Joseph P. Odenwalder, Jack K. Wolf, Chong U. Lee, Ephraim Zehavi
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Abstract
In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system which uses an outer Reed-Solomon encoder and interleaver an inner convolutional encoder, after the inner convolutional encoding the data bits are interleaved, and then grouped into symbols, each symbol having "m" bits. After grouping, the symbols are mapped to a complex plane using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Thus, bits, not symbols, are interleaved by the inner interleaver. A receiver performs a soft decision regarding the value of each bit in each complex QAM symbol received.
Claims10
A device for communicating a stream of digital data using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system, the OFDM transmission system including transmitters and receivers, the device comprising:
- an outer symbol interleaver, configured to receive the stream of digital data composed of a first sequence of bits, said outer interleaver for interleaving the first sequence of bits to produce a second sequence of bits;
- an encoder for encoding the second sequence of bits to produce a third sequence of bits;
- an inner bit interleaver for interleaving the third sequence of bits to produce a fourth sequence of bits;
- a signal space grouper for generating a plurality of symbols, wherein each of the plurality of symbols represent "m" successive bits of the fourth sequence of bits, wherein "m" is an integer value greater than one;
- a signal space mapper for mapping the plurality of symbols onto a plurality of complex symbols;
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- a serial-to-parallel converter for multiplexing the plurality of complex signals into a plurality of substreams.
A method for communicating a stream of digital data using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system, the OFDM transmission system including transmitters and receivers, the method comprising the steps of:
- symbol interleaving a first sequence of bits to produce a second sequence of bits;
- encoding the second sequence of bits to produce a third sequence of bits;
- bit interleaving the third sequence of bits to produce a fourth sequence of bits;
- generating a plurality of complex symbols representative of "m" successive bits of the fourth sequence of bits, wherein "m" is an integer value greater than one;
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- multiplexing the plurality of complex symbols into a plurality of substreams.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.